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John Piper Quotes - Page 4

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You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

Needs

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

Giving, Grace, Delight

John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.196, Multnomah

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

Prayer, Giving Up, Order

John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

Christian, Prayer, Love Relationship

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

Long, Triumph, Way

Your mind was made to know and love God.

Love, God, Christian

If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.

Beautiful, Knowing God, Knows

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

Passion, Long, Christian Inspirational

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

Glory, Aim, Ultimate

There is hope in forgiveness

Forgiveness, Christian, Hope

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

Prayer, Reflecting Back, Radiance

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.84, Multnomah

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

Christian, Missionary, Three

John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad! DVD Study Guide”, p.8, Baker Academic

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

Gratitude, Joy, Arise

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

Christian, Important, Ruins

John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition”, p.50, B&H Publishing Group

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

Gratitude, Kindness, Heart

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

Wrath, Meditation, Way

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

Self, Mind, Satisfaction

You can't praise what you don't prize.

Praise, Prize

John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.

Sports, Jobs, Heart

Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.

Christian, Worldview

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

Age, Christ, Defeated

The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.

Men, Self, Differences

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.

Strong, Long, Drunk

John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.25, SPCK

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

Biblical, Order, Deception

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

Depression, Waiting, Darkness

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